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On the rationality of pluralistic ignorance

Pluralistic ignorance is a socio-psychological phenomenon that involves a systematic discrepancy between people’s private beliefs and public behavior in certain social contexts. Recently, pluralistic ignorance has gained increased attention in formal and social epistemology. But to get clear on what precisely a formal and social epistemological account of pluralistic ignorance should look like,...

A Logic Approach to Pluralistic Ignorance

In this paper, the possibility of modeling the phenomenon “pluralistic ignorance” from social psychology, using epistemic/doxastic logic, is investigated. It is shown that the straightforward formalization of pluralistic ignorance does not capture the phenomenon completely. What is needed in addition is an assumption about the interplay between different agents’ beliefs or an assumption about h...

Pluralistic ignorance: Conceptual framework, antecedents and consequences

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present, in an integrated manner, the knowledge acquired about pluralistic ignorance in the fields of social psychology, sociology and business. Particularly, to identify the factors that work as antecedents of pluralistic ignorance, as well as its consequences, in various research contexts. Design/methodology: This integrative study on pluralistic ignorance...

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What do Moral Educators Know About Their Students? A Study of Pluralistic Ignorance

This study's the question how well moral educators know their students' moral views, is part of the more general question whether they base their efforts to foster moral development on adequate understanding of children. The findings show that most teachers indeed seem to possess a stereotypical image of the student. In order to reduce pluralistic ignorance, I recommend that moral educators sho...